Kino Classics' three DVD set Fritz Lang: The Early Works collects some of the earliest, rarest efforts from the director of such provocative classics as Metropolis (1926), M (1931) and Fury (1936). Probably the most surprising thing about the trio of restored 1919-21 German silents assembled here is that they have very little of the austere, carefully composed visual style that Lang would later be well-known for.

It is the future, and humans are divided into two groups: the thinkers, who make plans (but don't know how anything works), and the workers, who achieve goals (but don't have the vision). Completely separate, neither group is complete, but together they make a whole. One man from the "thinkers" dares visit the underground where the workers toil, and is astonished by what he sees…http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/

This superbly produced four-disc set in Eureka's Master of Cinema series features his three very different takes on Mabuse: the five-hour Dr Mabuse, The Gambler (1922), one of the masterpieces of silent cinema which captured the malaise of the Weimar Republic; The Testament of Dr Mabuse (1933), which targeted the ascendancy of Nazism and was his last German film before going into exile; and The 1,000 Eyes of Dr Mabuse (1960), his final movie, reflecting his thoughts on the new Germany and the cold war.

In the novel and play "Bitch" ( "La Chienne") Georges de la Fouchardiere and Andre Mouezy-Eon.Fritz Lang turned his attention to the old French film by Jean Renoir, with the same name ( "La Chienne"), filmed in 1931 with the participation of Michel Simon. It was a drama of the life of the petty bourgeoisie and the Parisian "bottom". As a result, has turned gloomy, but the brilliant film noir. Pictures for the film were written by John Dekker.